Zhang Guohua, the "landlord", was ordered to lead Tibet.
Deng Xiaoping called Zhang Guohua "the landlord" in 1950+0. At that time, only three or four months after the founding of New China, Mao Zedong put forward that "it is better to enter Tibet sooner than later", and the task of entering Tibet finally fell to the Southwest Bureau. Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping of the Southwest Bureau received a telegram from Mao Zedong who visited the Soviet Union: "Tibet has a small population, but its international status is extremely important. We must occupy it and turn it into a people's democratic Tibet. It is very difficult for Qinghai and Xinjiang to enter Tibet, so the task of entering Tibet and managing Tibet should be decided by the Southwest Bureau. "
Tibet is a very special place, with an area of 654.38+2,000 square kilometers and an average elevation of more than 4,000 meters. Traffic is extremely difficult, and it is known as the "roof of the world". In addition, at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, China's foreign aggression continued and civil strife occurred frequently. Some separatists in Tibet are separated from the central government in the mainland. After the establishment of the Kuomintang Nanjing government, although officials were stationed in Lhasa, they did not station troops, and the administrative affairs were autonomous by their local governments. Before the founding of New China, Tibet had been infiltrated by foreign forces. Nowadays, it is unusual to March into Tibet and who will lead it, so we have to consider it carefully. Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping began to discuss the candidates to enter Tibet: The Old Army of the Second Field Army has three regiments and nine armies, but it is currently the 62nd Army occupying Ya 'an, the capital of Xikang, and does not belong to the Army of the Second Field Army. Geographically, it is most suitable for the 62 nd Army to enter Tibet, but the hardest work is still carried out by its own old army; 10 army has a good fighting capacity and is the old army of the Second Field Army. It is appropriate to send them, but unfortunately, the commander of the army, Du Yide, has been in poor health recently and it is difficult to enter Tibet.
Deng Xiaoping smoked a cigarette and thought for a long time. He said to Liu Bocheng, "Let the landlord go!"
Liu Bocheng was confused by this "strange remark" and asked, "Who?"
"Zhang Guohua."
Liu Bocheng said with a smile, "I'm also after him. Ok, just ask him to go! "
At this time, Zhang Guocai was 36 years old, and he was in his prime. So, how did Zhang Guohua become a "landlord"?
Zhang Guohua,19141kloc-0 was born in yongxin, Jiangxi province on October 22nd, and 1929 was a soldier in Yuan and the army in Jinggangshan. After Mao Zedong went to Jinggangshan, Zhang Guohua successively served as the instructor of the Fifth Regiment Company of the Second Division of the Gongsijun Army and the political commissar of the Political Teaching Brigade of the Red Army Corps on the way to the Long March. After arriving in northern Shaanxi, he served as the director of the Political Department of Hedong Guerrilla Detachment. During the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, he served as the political commissar of the Second Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army 1 15 Division, the political commissar of the Western Military Division, the political commissar of the seventh detachment of Luxi Military Region and the political commissar of the fourth brigade. His job is to transport troops for the army.
1949, 18 In February, the 18th Army of the China People's Liberation Army, composed of troops from the Henan-Anhui Soviet Area and the 20th Brigade of the 1st column of the Central Plains Field Army, was led by Zhang Guohua, commander of the Henan-Anhui Soviet Area, with Tan Guansan as political commissar. Zhang Guohua was only 35 years old when he became the first commander of the 18th Army of China People's Liberation Army. However, it is such a young commander who has trained a large number of cadres. In those days, after the Second Field Army and the Third Field Army launched the campaign to cross the river, Nanjing was quickly liberated. Because most of the troops still need to fight for the liberation of China, after the liberation of Nanking, a number of cadres are needed to take over, and there are not so many cadres at present. Liu Deng decided to take over Nanjing from the affiliated schools of various armies. At the deployment meeting, when Zhang Guohua reported that there were more than 4,500 personnel in each camp of the 18th Army, the whole audience was in an uproar, because this figure had exceeded the sum of the personnel in each camp of other armies in the Second Field Army. Someone began to whisper: "Zhang Junchang is so rich that he is really a landlord!" "